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Brave by Rose McGowan
RRP: £10.99£6.35'My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another. BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same.'-Rose McGowan A revealing memoir and... -
Cult Following: My life in the shadow of the Children of God by Bexy Cameron
RRP: £14.99£10.95'A harrowing-but-moving story' - Stylist'Raw, brave and vulnerable. Told with such clarity and purpose' - Maxine Mei-Fung Chung'A brave and deeply moving story of fierce spirit' - Dakota JohnsonBexy Cameron was in her late twenties when the dark events... -
Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician by John Worthen
RRP: £25.00£21.32Shattering longstanding myths, this new biography reveals the robust and positive life of one of the nineteenth century's greatest composers This candid, intimate, and compellingly written new biography offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann's life... -
Slave Girl: Abducted by traffickers. Sold as a sex slave. This is my true story. by Sarah Forsyth
RRP: £8.99£6.45Sarah Forsyth has spent most of her life in fear. After overcoming the hurt and heartbreak of a horrific childhood, Sarah managed to build a new life for herself as a nursery nurse.Then, one day, she spotted a newspaper advert for a job in a creche in... -
Masters of Sex (Media tie-in): The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love by Thomas Maier
RRP: £12.99£8.60Now a New Showtime Original SeriesShowtime's dramatic series Masters of Sex, starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, is based on this real-life story of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Before Sex and the City and ViagraTM, America... -
How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment by Matt Johnson
RRP: £18.99£12.75Christopher Hitchens was for many years considered one of the fiercest and most eloquent left-wing polemicists in the world. But on much of today's left, he's remembered as a defector, a warmonger, and a sellout-a supporter of the wars in Afghanistan and... -
Ataturk by Baron Patrick Balfour Kinross
RRP: £18.99£13.15The definitive biography of the father of modern Turkey, a powerful figure in the still-unfolding drama of the Middle East.With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War came the emergence of new nations, chief among them Turkey itself... -
Follow Me and Leeds United by Heidi Haigh 9781780913087
£13.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780913087Author Heidi HaighFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
Garbo by Robert Gottlieb
RRP: £32.00£21.61"Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941," Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo, "Greta Garbo is in people's minds, hearts, and dreams." Strikingly glamorous and famously inscrutable, she managed, in this short time, to infiltrate the world's... -
Mary Seacole, Florence Nightingale and Edith Cavell by Nick Hunter
RRP: £8.99£7.93Discover how these courageous women pursued their vocation to help others in times of war. How did their lives and work compare in very different times? Follow their stories to discover the differences and similarities between their amazing lives!... -
The Boy Who Never Came Home: Philip Cairns by Emma McMenamy 9781915306142
RRP: £8.99£6.45The disappearance of schoolboy Philip Cairns has baffled detectives and his family and remains unsolved 35 years later, despite an intensive garda investigation, extensive searches and multiple media appeals. The quiet 13-year-old was snatched in broad... -
My Great Arab Melancholy by Lamia Ziadé 9780745348155
RRP: £24.99£16.38My Great Arab Melancholy is a beautiful, tragic and award-winning book from Lebanese writer and illustrator Lamia Ziade. Blending the author's years of research, personal memoir and more than 300 illustrations, this compelling history of the modern Arab... -
In Strictest Confidence by Craig Revel Horwood
RRP: £20.00£4.56The third instalment in Craig Revel Horwood's frank and funny autobiography takes the reader through the highs and lows of the Strictly Come Dancing star's 'fab-u-lous' life. Join Craig and a host of Strictly stars - including Ore Oduba, Judy Murray and... -
Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes
RRP: £12.99£9.09The extraordinary and dramatic biography of the first modern feminist, who spent her entire life fighting for the principle of equality 'Gripping ... Most lives would be overshadowed by such a melodramatic end. But Marx's life was so much more than a... -
Hermann and Arthur Goering: The Nazi and the Renegade by James Wyllie
RRP: £12.99£9.62They were the most unlikely siblings - one, Adolf Hitler's most trusted henchman, the other a fervent anti-Nazi. Hermann Goering was a founder member of the Nazi Party, who became commander of the Luftwaffe, ordering the terror bombing of civilians and... -
The State of Disbelief: A story of death, love and forgetting by Juliet Rosenfeld
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A beautifully written, profoundly moving and immersive account of grief that will bring solace.' - Louise France, The TimesWhen Juliet Rosenfeld's husband dies of lung cancer only seven months into their marriage, everything she has learnt about death... -
Camp David by David Walliams 9780241957721
RRP: £12.99£9.80Britain's Got Talent is BACK . . . so it's time to get serious with Britain's favourite funny man.Famous comedian and actor, funniest judge on Britain's Got Talent, high-achieving sportsman and BESTSELLING AUTHOR of The World's Worst Children series,... -
Confessions of a Newsboy Editor: Adventures In The Golden Age Of Print by Peter Jackson 9781399961851
RRP: £10.99£8.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399961851Author Peter JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Grayling PublishingPublisher Grayling Publishing -
The Kings and Queens of Britain by John Cannon
RRP: £13.99£10.84This authoritative and accessible guide to the British monarchy spans the Romano-British rulers of 55 BC to the present day House of Windsor. Generously illustrated with maps, photos, paintings, and genealogies, it contains a wealth of information on the... -
Shouting in the Street: Adventures and Misadventures of a Fleet Street Survivor by Donald Trelford 9781785902529
RRP: £25.00£17.84In this long-awaited book Donald Trelford recalls his adventures and misadventures during nearly sixty years in journalism. Described as the 'Rocky Marciano of newspaper politics', he fought off politicians, owners and predators over a quarter-century at... -
Michelangelo: A Life on Paper by Leonard Barkan 9780691147666
RRP: £42.00£34.64Michelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the David, the Piet, and the dome of St. Peter's. Yet throughout his seventy-five year career, he was engaged in another artistic act that until now has been largely... -
If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien
RRP: £9.99£7.26Hailed as one of the finest books to emerge from the Vietnam War, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a fascinating insight into the lives of the soldiers caught in the conflict. First published in 1973, this intensely personal novel about one foot... -
Letters of Note: Art by Shaun Usher
RRP: £6.99£4.84In Letters of Note: Art, Shaun Usher celebrates extraordinary correspondence about art, from missives on the agony of being overlooked, the ecstasy of producing work that excites, to surprising sources of inspiration and rousing manifestos. Includes... -
Still Improving: Becoming the World's Most Experienced 747 Captain by Nick Eades
£12.28Still Improving: Becoming the World's Most Experienced 747 Captain is the second part of author, Nick Eades' autobiographical account of his career in aviation as he rose up British Airways' seniority list to become one of the world's youngest and then,... -
Lost In Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman
RRP: £10.99£7.77In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands... -
A Frog in the Fjord: One Year in Norway by Lorelou Desjardins 9788230349199
RRP: £24.99£17.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788230349199Author Lorelou DesjardinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint North PressPublisher North PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Ex Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer by Norman Podhoretz 9781893554177
RRP: £12.99£11.91"Ex-Friends" is filled with brilliant portraits of some of the cultural icons who defined our time. While it has some of the elements of a personal diary, it is also a journal de combat describing the intellectual and social turbulence of the 60s and 70s... -
All Because of Henry by Nuala Gardner 9781845027070
RRP: £9.99£7.55All Because of Henry picks up the lead from the international bestseller, A Friend Like Henry, which traced the childhood journey of Dale, the Gardner family and, of course, their amazing golden retriever Henry, who has finally helped Dale to communicate... -
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited by Philip Eade
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Brisk, lively and wonderfully entertaining' John Banville'Excellent ... read this book' Literary Review'The best single-volume life of the author available' Irish TimesThe much mythologised author of Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust and Brideshead... -
Footsteps by Richard Holmes
RRP: £10.99£7.77Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume 'Sidetracks'. In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called Footsteps and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring... -
Endless Forms: Why We Should Love Wasps by Seirian Sumner 9780008394479
RRP: £20.00£13.74Welcome to the mysterious world of the wasp. For fans of Other Minds and Entangled Life, this book introduces an insect that is 100 million years older, much cleverer and ten times more diverse than bees - and just as essential for the survival of the... -
John H Haynes OBE: The Biography by Ned Temko
RRP: £20.00£14.69This fascinating and inspiring biography of John H Haynes - the man behind Haynes Manuals - looks 'under the bonnet' at his extraordinary life, and his legacy to the motoring world. This is the story of how one man's vision and enthusiasm gave a small... -
The Maggie Greville Story by Pam Burbidge
RRP: £12.99£9.09Maggie Greville lived in obscurity, until her father William McEwan changed everything. He was a self-made man, controller, and philanthropist, who staged the rise of Maggie A to Maggie G. Power, money, and tutoring created the new modern emancipated... -
Mikhail Bulgakov by Julie Curtis 9781780237411
RRP: £12.99£9.09Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) has become the most popular Russian writer of the twentieth century, even though his works were banned for decades after his death due to the repressive Soviet censorship of literature. His great novel, The Master and... -
Time Song: Searching for Doggerland by Julia Blackburn
RRP: £14.99£11.35SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE A journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to HollandTime Song tells of the creation, the existence and the... -
The Battles of Bonnie Prince Charlie: The Young Chevalier at War by Arran Johnston 9781399061148
RRP: £25.00£17.62Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788) was the grandson of Britain's last Stuart king and the last of his line to fight for their right to the throne. Born in Rome and raised at his father's cultured and cosmopolitan court-in-exile, the young prince... -
Hail To The Redskins: Gibbs, the Diesel, the Hogs, and the Glory Days of D.C.'s Football Dynasty by Adam Lazarus 9780062375766
RRP: £13.99£12.38At last, the definitive account of the Redskins' championship decadeBased on more than ninety original interviews, here is the rollicking chronicle of the famed Washington Redskins teams of the Joe Gibbs years-one of the most remarkable and unique runs... -
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee 9780062012333
RRP: £20.00£13.74"Without a doubt, it is the most detailed account of the awesome pleasures and perils of rock and roll stardom I have ever read. It is completely compelling, and utterly revolting". ("Rolling Stone"). Ten years ago, Motley Crue's... -
True Colours: My Autobiography by Barry Geraghty
RRP: £10.99£7.40WINNER OF INTERNATIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR AT THE 2021 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS'An intelligent and often beautifully observed book' Donald McRae, The Guardian'A must-read about a career which never dropped out of top gear' Racing Post'A... -
I'll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics by Lou Reed
RRP: £25.00£17.59A 2019 Music Book of the Year, THE TIMESOut of print for several years, a comprehensive volume of Lou Reed's lyrics with brand new introductions, now updated in a new text design to include the lyrics from his final album with Metallica, Lulu.Through his...